4. I would but my computer's not advanced enough, LOL.

I still have my 386 in storage but I stopped playing games on it because I think it has a virus -- every time I open a game on it, the directory disappears next time I reboot. Of course most of these were games from the 90s pirated from schoolmates via floppy, but they were all classic.

13. Panzergeneral is great, for a game that was released in 1992

I first played it in 1999 and really loved it. As a person who loves strategy/wargames it was my first initiation into that genre.

But If you like playing it I would suggest PanzerCorps. It's identical to Panzergeneral (They even have some of the same maps!) but release last year. Check it out. its worth it. I got it when they had it on sale on Steam, for 9$

9. yep!!

I use PCSX2 to Emulate Playstation games on my PC.

I'm a PC gamer...and do not own any consoles. However I love the final fantasy series. (except for the ff13 which kinda sucked..but hopefully they will make good on their promises and rectify that mistake and return to the original style in the next version)

However When the Final Fantasy series went a Playstation exclusive in early 2000s (the last FF game for pc was FF8), I had to rely on emulators to play the subsequent ones on my PC.

Imho PCSX2 is the best Playstation/Playstation 2 emulator out there, with full quad-core and Video card support for emulation.

11. used to. quite heavily, too. but that was 20+ years ago.

in the past 5+ i've lost most interest in such things. still love my old video games, but i don't go out of my way for emulation anymore. probably due to going through so many PC crashes and updates and losing all my previous progress in games had something to do with it. now i'm on OS X and there's not as many emulators i like -- and i'm not all that interested in boot camp dual booting just for some old games.

i'd have to get a game dedicated PC and run it as my MAME arcade box. but i have other expenditures in the way before that.

17. It doesn't need an emulator but I've been playing Ports of Call sometimes lately

I first saw it on a friends amiga in the '80s and was pretty impressed. Other than that I pickup an occasional oldie from GOG preloaded in dosbox.Most are new to me anyway because I was too busy with work and family to get much gaming time in in the '80s and 90's.

19. Wow, I remember Ports of Call

I played it on my Amiga as a kid. I never got all that far (I think the save system didn't really work for me), but I remember hauling back and forth between San Francisco and Dar-Es-Salaam a lot. Seemed like I couldn't find all too many other profitable routes. And I remember groaning every time I would run into a tugboat strike and have to dock the ship manually.

You're playing a PC version of Ports of Call, right? I'll have to see if I can find one.

20. The original developer is still independently developing the game, here's the game website:

The PoC classic for pc looks and plays similar to what I remembered on the Amiga, I think that's 4 euro.That's all I was looking for when I did a web search, but I thought it was cool that it's still alive when I found the website so I ended up buying the lifetime license and getting all the bells and whistles. I found it a little over a year ago and there was just a recent update. Pretty amazing for a game that started on the Amiga in the 1980's imo.

21. I'm glad I'm not the only one here who thinks emulators and ROMs aren't a bad thing.

Emulators allow us to play leaked long forgotten prototypes plus the whole "Copyright" terms has gotten way out of hand anyway (what it's like 120 years now?). Also if I end up really liking a ROM I am playing I will end up buying a actual physical copy of the game if possible to support the developers of the game.

23. Consoles no. I do however have an Amiga emulator on my machine.

24. Mame and Znes. Pure nostalgia

My father wanted me to clear out his cluttered laptop and discovered he had MAME with 7 gigs worth of roms. Was more than happy to port 3000+ games using my old ipod as a flash drive. Every game I've ever played since I was a kid including Moon Patrol, Time Pilot and Mr. Do. I prefer the Znes emulator because it comes with Pro Action Replay. I love Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger to death, but I prefer to skip the grind of games I already beat by maxing gold and exp after the first battle.

28. I still remember opening FF6

26. I don't think it's legal

But a long while ago I played FF2 (because I was a complete FF1 junkie) on the PC NSX Emu. It was nearly completely translated from Japanese, because it was literally FF2, the one release for Nintendo (the first one) and not released in the US.

It was awesome when they released FF Origins for PSX and US folks could legitimately play both 1 and 2